Month: August 2017

Truth: I don’t know what I’m doing

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Plain and simple.

If I stay off Twitter, don’t watch the news, go out into the world and do every day life things, it is very easy to forget about any of the turmoil going on in the world and UTTER IDIOCY going on in the administration.  I can go out to dinner, laugh at movies, sing at the top of my lungs, post pictures of it all and feel truly happy.

Then I get home, go on Twitter, turn on the news, forget anything good that happened earlier in the day and sink into total despair.  I scream at the TV before work, rant to Joey, to my mom, to my sister and wonder how I’m supposed to get through a work day where everyone else seems unfazed.  “How are they doing it?”  “Am I doing it too?”

Guys, I’m totally lost with this.  I don’t know how to deal or act or behave on the internet.  So if you’re feeling that way too, you’re not alone!  And if you’ve got it all under control, please help a girl out!  In the meantime, I’ll just be over here waffling back and forth between joy and rage and wondering if I’m saying the right things at the right time in the right place.

Weekend Things

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PRO LIFE TIP: Tell your job you’re taking an entire week off for vacation then actually return on Thursday and you get to enjoy a staycation of sorts from Friday-Sunday.  Probably one of the best life decisions I’ve made thus far.

Also, I promise to tell you all our trip to Oregon — including a cute little stay in Portland — very very soon but I’ve got lots of pictures to sort through first, so in the meantime, please enjoy a little glimpse at those three days back in Denver before we had to return to work/real life/the daily grind (which isn’t so bad, but you know, vacation > anything).

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Odd13’s n00b and Codename: Superfan?!  Best wedding ever! // Congrats, DJ & Alyssa! ♥

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Had the morning & all the new Heart coffee to myself on Friday // The fridge was a wasteland but I burnt caramelized some bananas I found in the freezer and breakfast was a dream

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Post-vacation garden harvest // The biggest radish // The prettiest beet //  A surprise squash // Roasted em all up // Lunch perfection that was 90% from our garden and that made me insanely happy 

P.S. First taste of my newest kombucha (carrot-orange-turmeric) and it was mega-delicious and super-carbonated!

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Un-pictured Saturday events: Friday breakfast repeat, bike ride to the Farmers’ Market, veggie sandwich lunch, watching E.R. reruns on TV, evening run (why don’t we do this more?!)

Pictured: grill dinner of my dreams and a spontaneous trip to Ice Cream Riot for the creamiest Cookie Butter (me!) and White Russian (Joey!) scoops // Joey and Ned are ice cream buddies, for sure

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Joey chose The Noshery for our Sunday Breakfast Date and he chose wisely // Lori joined us, so everything about breakfast was really really good

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Garden gazing // stress baking (because real world events are horrifying)

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Sometimes wish Joey had a cookie for a head // Summer Bliss Bowl with Sweet Potato Falafel & Jalapeño Ranch was SO good (again) but it’s three days later and my house still reeks of oil // Also, GoT was kind of a yawn this week (IMO) but hell yeah to that band of misfits coming together to face the Army of the Dead at the end!  I need to see that flaming sword ASAP!